Our little elf

I know that every child out there loves Christmas but I have to tell you that Jordan, our 15 year old elf loves Christmas almost more than anyone I know. He enjoys shopping for presents, wrapping the gifts, going to the Christmas Eve service and then...his night begins. Though Nicholas, his younger brother, now understands about Santa, Jordan still feels Nicholas needs to go to bed early and makes sure of this each year. After Nicholas is tucked into bed Jordan brings the Santa gifts out and puts them around the tree. He will beg to put the stockings out too but mom won't budge on that one, I still like the stockings to be a surprise.

Later, while everyone is snug in our beds and sleeping soundly, around 3:00 am, Jordan will wake up and go downstairs. At this time, he will arrange all the gifts for each family member into their own piles and place them around the family room ~ we all know where our seats are each Christmas morning and we don't have to spend time passing out gifts, our little elf has already taken care of this for us. Once everyone has come down, it's time for the fun to begin!